In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no…

“Modern wars as a rule have been caused by the commercial and financial rivalry and intrigues of the capitalist interests in the different countries.…

— John Harrison Nichols

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“With you... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.”

— Melissa Petreschock

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

— Sam Keen

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war:…

— Arundhati Roy

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the…

— Walter Wink

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You…

— Desmond Tutu

Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies.…

— Pope Paul VI

The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions…

— Molly Ivins

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

— Suzanne La Follette

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

— Therese of Lisieux

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the…

— Dorothy Thompson

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls…

— Margaret Mead

All works of love are works of peace.

— Mother Teresa